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Group success boosts Eminent’s stallion credentials

Sir Peter Vela’s huge admiration for Frankel has been further repaid with the unbeaten champion’s son Eminent adding a Group Two victory in France to his record. The New Zealand Bloodstock and Pencarrow Stud principal is the owner of the three-year-old, who overnight was a front-running winner of the Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (2000m) in a slick 2.02.26 at Deauville. Previously successful in the Gr.3 Craven Stakes and fourth in the Gr.1 English Derby, Eminent’s performances have drawn serio...

NZTBA Auckland Branch Stallion Parade & Awards Luncheon this Sunday

On the back of the success by the stock of Redwood(GB) last weekend, Westbury Stud is looking forward to parading the son of High Chaparral(GB) at a Stallion Parade on Sunday 20th August organised by the Auckland Branch of the NZTBA. As well as Redwood, six other stallions will be on show at Westbury Stud, Reliable Man(GB), Swiss Ace(AUS), El Roca(AUS), Postponed(USA) and new comers Tarzino and Telperion(AUS). The parade commences at 10.30am at nearby Haunui Farm where their new stallion Belardo...

Dubai Cup trip on offer

A trip for two to the 2018 Dubai World Cup will be up for grabs at next month’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards. All ticket purchases to the function to be held at the Langham Hotel in Auckland on September 10 will go into the draw for the prize, courtesy of Al Basti Equiworld. The winner will be drawn on the night. The Al Basti Equiworld VIP Experience for two includes return Emirates business class flights, airport pick up and transfer to the Meydan Hotel for six night...

Windsor Park Stallion Parade 2017

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Flemington success for Canterbury Breeders Hazel & David Voice

There is no better advertisement for a staying stallion than a Darren Weir trained horse winning over ground at Flemington, according to White Robe Lodge Stud manager Wayne Stewart. And when the stallion concerned Raise The Flag (GB) and Weir strike the quinella it’s an even bigger boost. This happened at Flemington recently when Yogi (ex Malozza) got up to beat Chequered Flag (ex Star of Mulwala) in the 2500m Oliver St Plate.  Both horses started their racing life in New Zealand and wer...

Equine Welfare - NZTR Presentation

Martin Burns (NZTR General Manager, Commerical and Strategy) delivered a presentation entitled “Thoroughbred Welfare Matters” at the July NZTBA Branch Representatives Meeting in Cambridge....

Breeders' Bulletin: Winter 2017

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2017 Breeder of the Year Finalists Announced

The finalists for the 2017 Breeder of the Year and Broodmare of the Year have been announced with the winners to be presented with their awards at the New Zealand Thoroughbred Awards in Auckland on September 10th. Following the dominance of our leading three-year-olds in Sydney over autumn it is understandable that the breeders of Jon Snow(Richard Moore), Bonneval (City Bloodstock Ltd) and Gingernuts(Goodwood Stud) are among the nominees, along with the breeders of Kawi (John and Christine Goodi...

Savabeel dominates sire awards - again

Savabeel has done it again - only this time with even more dominance. Waikato Stud's star Zabeel stallion has made a clean sweep of New Zealand's three stallion categories for the 2016-17 season. For the second straight year the stallion has won the Grosvenor Award for New Zealand stakes earnings, the Dewar Stallion Trophy for Australasian earnings and the Centaine Award for global earnings. Savabeel now emulates former barn mate O'Reilly as a two-time winner of all three titles, after O'Reilly'...

Baker-Forsman top trainers’ ladder for second time

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman training juggernaut steamrolled their way to a second National Trainers’ Premiership off the back of an outstanding season of feature race success. After finishing runner-up to the Te Akau Racing team of Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards last year, following their inaugural title in 2014-15, the Baker-Forsman combination ramped up their efforts this year as they claimed a remarkable 19 black-type succeses among their haul of 107 wins. Those 107 wins nette...

Cameron Ring - Final Blog from Ireland

People said it would be the best 6 months of my life, they weren't wrong. What an experience my time has been on the Irish National Stud Breeding Course. The people I have met, horses and places I have visited will be cherished for a long time to come. Let me recap the final month of June. It has been very quiet within the yards which has allowed Sally to be extremely busy from day to day, organising as many trips to various equine establishments as she can. We visited Ballylinch Stud in Tippera...

Good luck, Good luck and Goodbye to Ireland

It is fair to say that my experience in Ireland has been amazing and I can't believe it has already come to an end. I don't know what I am going to miss more, working with such fantastic horses, or all of the people I have met over here. My next stop on the Sunline Scholarship is at Taylor Made Farm in America. I really can’t thank all of the people at Coolmore enough for making my time there such a great experience. I was lucky enough to attend the 2017 Irish Derby and what a fantastic time i...

Cameron Ring graduates with Honours

Once again a New Zealand student  has excelled at the Irish National Stud Thoroughbred Breeders Course. For the past six months Cameron Ring has been studying in Ireland and last week he graduated from the Diploma course with Honours. He travelled to Ireland to study as a recipient of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association (NZTBA) Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship sponsored by the Taylor Family. According to Sally Carroll of the Irish National Stud, Cameron had a fine wor...

Progeny flying the flag in Australia

The progeny of Raise the Flag are doing just that in Australia for the White Robe Lodge stallion. It could not come at a better time for the former Juddmonte horse, whose book of mares has started to wane in recent years. “Like any staying stallion they take a while to get established and they need a few crops on the ground,” White Robe Lodge studmaster Wayne Stewart said. “I think people have just sent their mares to him two or three times and they are just waiting to see what happens.�...

Al Basti Equiworld (Dubai) investment bolsters NZ racing

Al Basti Equiworld, the UAE’s leading distributor of horse feeds, supplements and veterinary medicines, is to extend its support for racing in New Zealand. That will include sponsorship of two feature classic races, the New Zealand 2000 Guineas and the New Zealand Oaks, with each event to carry an extra $100,000 in prize money. In a three-year agreement, the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld NZ 2000 Guineas held at Riccarton Park in November and the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld NZ Oaks at Trentham in March w...

Karaka Million meeting confirmed

The Auckland Racing Club in conjunction with New Zealand Bloodstock has confirmed the six race programme for the Karaka Million twilight meeting on Saturday, January 27, 2018. “The ARC and NZB are thrilled with the programme for the Karaka Million twilight meeting, which includes two $1 million races plus four Group Races,” ARC executive general manager of racing and operations Craig Baker said.  The meeting will feature the Karaka Million ($1,000,000), Karaka Million 3YO Classic ($1,...

Large boost to thoroughbred stakes

 More than $2 million will be added to stakes for the Feature and Premier 2 thoroughbred meetings in New Zealand next season. The boost for Feature meetings, together with other increases for the 2017-18 season, were announced today by New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR). It will lift the minimum stake for non-maiden races at all Feature meetings to $22,500 and means that the $22,500 non-maiden minimum will apply to virtually every Saturday meeting in the new season. The increases are...

Brisk business for top New Zealand mares

Group One mares Orinda, Rising Romance and Savaria have all changed hands. The former, the dam of the ATC Derby winner Jon Snow, has been purchased by Peter Yip, of the Hong Kong Breeders' Club, who also has strong New Zealand ties. "I bought Orinda on behalf of Peter, my business partner in the farm here," Highview Stud's Brent Gillovic said. "He's had a share in Snitzel right from the outset so we had to get a mare that justified going to him. "We had a great yearling sales series at K...

Zabeel’s son to take up residence at Brighthill

A champion son of the legendary Zabeel has been secured for stud duty by Brighthill Farm. The four-time Group One winner Preferment will be a top-notch addition to Nick and Anne-Marie King's Waikato operation. "We'd been on the look-out for a stallion since Azamour died, but we were determined to sit it out if necessary to find the right one," Nick King said. "Preferment fits all our criteria – he was a spectacular racehorse and it's highly likely that he's the last Derby-winning son of ...

Sunline International Scholarship winner Lance Forbes - Blog from Ireland

After a fantastic time in Newmarket it was time to start my next leg of the Sunline International Scholarship at the home of champions, better known as Coolmore Stud. My time in Ireland started off by getting pulled aside by the Immigration officer at the airport, at this time I was starting to get a little worried but once he found out that I was going to work at Coolmore he just wanted to know if I was going to be working with the great Galileo and if I had any tips for the weekend! The pass...

New NZRB Appointment - Bill Birnie

The Minister for Racing, Hon David Bennett, has today announced the appointment of a new Independent Member to the Board of the New Zealand Racing Board (NZRB), Bill Birnie. Minister Bennett's media release is included below. Bill joins the Board effective from today for a three year term. Bill has extensive board and senior executive experience, having been a member and trustee of a number of boards and charitable trusts, as well as working as both an investment banker and solicitor of the Hi...

Lions great graces Cambridge trackwork

Tall tales and colourful banter is the norm at racecourse gaps around the country, but Cambridge trainers might have reason to take that to a new level after a trackwork visit from Scottish rugby great Gavin Hastings on Tuesday. Hastings, who captained the British and Irish Lions on their 1993 tour of New Zealand and played 61 tests for Scotland, was in the Waikato for the Lions game against the Chiefs in Hamilton on Tuesday night and took the opportunity to attend trackwork. Among the trai...

Book closed for Iffraaj

Iffraaj has had a standout season as a sire, which has seen breeders flock to him in droves. As a result, the Haunui Farm stallion's book is now closed heading into the 2017 breeding season. His case has been helped by impressive Group One victories by Gingernuts in the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby and Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas and Jon Snow in the Gr.1 Australian Derby. Additionally, his northern hemisphere-bred son Ribchester won the Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes last month, while the stallion is also represen...

Princely foundation stallion at Grassyards

Prince of Brooklyn's arrival this week at Grassyards Farm near Dunedin will mark Mosgiel couple Jason Coutts and Charlotte Young's first foray into the stallion business. Coutts negotiated the purchase of the son of Magnus with the help of New Zealand Bloodstock and Gavelhouse. "I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to stand such an outstanding type, with both sprinting and staying blood in his pedigree," Coutts said He is out of the Zabeel mare Tristabeel, whose seven foals all have been win...

2017 New Zealand Stallion Register now available

Long winter evenings are the perfect time to start thinking about where to send your broodmares this season, and the newly released NZTBA Stallion Register is just the tool to guide you with that selection. The 44 th volume of the Register of Thoroughbred Stallions of New Zealand is in the letter boxes of all financial members of the NZTBA right now. The 152 page soft bound book features the tabulated pedigrees of 79 stallions standing at stud in New Zealand along with their race and stud re...